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Victory Comes in the Morning

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( From Pastor Jason’s message on April 10, 2022)   For the Israelites, Egypt had been a place of deliverance! It was where Joseph’s family came to survive the famine. The Bible tells us that Pharaoh rejoiced at their arrival and gave them the best of the land in Goshen. Life was GOOD! But, over time, things began to change, as we see in the Book of Exodus, chapter 1 (NLT):   8 Eventually, a new king came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done. 9 He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are. 10 We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more. If we don’t, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us. Then they will escape from the country.” 11 So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.
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God Always Has a Plan

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  (from Pastor Jason’s message on March 20, 2022)   It’s been about 500 years since the flood. It’s now that we meet the grandsons of Abraham, the twin sons of Isaac. Esau, the oldest twin, struggled with self-control, jealousy, and forgiveness. Jacob, the youngest twin, struggled with insecurity, deception, and greed.   We pick up their story in Genesis 25:19-23 (NLT):    This is the account of the family of Isaac, the son of Abraham. When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel … and the sister of Laban …. Isaac pleaded with the LORD on behalf of his wife because she was unable to have children. The LORD answered Isaac’s prayer, and Rebekah became pregnant with twins. But the two children struggled with each other in her womb. So, she went to ask the LORD about it. “Why is this happening to me?” she asked. And the LORD told her, “The sons in your womb will become two nations. From the very beginning, the two nations will be rivals. One nation will be st
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The Altar of Sacrifice

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  (from Pastor Jason's message on March 13, 2022) There’s a pivotal story in the chronology of the Bible that takes place in the record of the Book of Genesis. It involves a man named Abraham and his son, Isaac. It takes place on a mountain named Moriah that is of huge geographic significance in Biblical history. Today, that location is known by several names, including the Dome of the Rock, the Temple Mount, and the Western Wall or Wailing Wall. The Dome was built there by followers of Islam in the 6th century A.D. This is also the location of the second Temple that the Pharisees thought Jesus was talking about when He said, “Destroy this temple and I will raise it in three days. This temple would be later destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.   This was also the site of the original temple, destroyed in 586 B.C. by King Nebuchadnezzar, but originally planned by King David and built by King Solomon in 1000 B.C. The Jews would return from Babylonian exile 50 years later and rebuild th
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